Folia Historica 32. (Budapest, 2017)

I. TANULMÁNYOK - Steinmacher Kornélia: Az idegenből jött uralkodónő. Jagelló Izabella (1519-1559) alakja a magyar kulturális emlékezetben

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Madarász Viktor: Martinuzzi György és Izabella királyné fogadja a török követet, 1879. Szépművészeti Múzeum - Magyar Nemzeti Galéria,

(Fotó: Mester Tibor)

THE QUEEN FROM ABROAD.

ISABELLA JAGIELLON (1519-1559) IN THE HUNGARIAN CULTURAL MEMORY

Summary

This essay presents the figure of Queen Isabelle in 15-16“1 century historical works of Ferenc Forgách, Sebestyén Borsos, Antal Verancsics, Gergely Bánffi, Ambrus Somogy as well as in 19,h century literary texts of Zsigmond Kemény, Mór Jókai and Károly P. Szathmáry. This essay also analyzes and compares the 19th century paintings of Miklós Barabás and Sándor Wágner.

In their own time period, women who lived differently from society's norms - also the queen from abroad - were judged based on the given power relations. Even though women got into these kinds of situations because of their gender, their conflicts should be viewed not only as a conflict between men and women, but also as a

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